The great Sage, Sri Janeganian and his assigned troops went deep into the mountainous forests. They travelled for many days... and days turned into weeks. They fed themselves on the forest vegetation, the Tantric warriors catching birds and fish, while Sri Janeganian observed the strict vegan diet (water, berries and edible flowers) of the Aaiyyanist Suuayan, a forerunner of the S'uunya School. They travelled deeper and deeper until it was so deep that there was no other light - except a faint flicker in the distance. The Sage and the troops slowly made their way towards the light and perceived a bright light on top of a hill surrounded by deep dark trees. The Sage and his soldiers quietly made their way to the light and found a remarkable sight: all the people (the ten finest huntsmen, and twenty master soldiers) who had disappeared all those five years before were sitting cross legged and were meditating in a circle around a tremendous fire. In the centre of the fire, impervious to pain or burning there was a old dark skinned bearded man, large and overpowering in stature but serene in visage. The sage asked him who he was - and the old man boomed out: "I am the Forest Dweller. I am the Lord of the Hills".
The sage understood this simple truth and prostrated himself before Murugan. The sage then remembered his promise: "I promised the Queen to bring back what I found in the mountains" - you must all come back to the Palace.
Murugan bowed his head and said: "The promise you made was already directed by me. I, who see everything and know all, already whispered the promise to the Queen and yourself before you both were born. This act was meant to happen and has always happened in all of our incarnations - do you not remember?"
Sage Janeganian delved deep within his subconscious memory and found a faint glimmer of truth that was masked. "I do remember, but the details are clouded."
Murugan answered - "Yes I have willed it so, for even wise men and women cannot fully understand the truth, even if it appears to them as a friend."
Murugan and his followers (the Queen's huntsmen and soldiers) returned back with the Sage and his army to the Queens Temple Palace. When the Queen saw the giant bearded old man, wild and forest-like leading her subjects (all the people she sent into the forest) she felt a faint subconscious pang of guilt, jealousy and arrogance which evolved into rage. Let us be clear. The Queen Sironemaniyaa was a wise Queen but fully immersed in the Tantric tradition. In some parts of this tradition, the ego and the self are elevated up as an act of liberation. One allows oneself to feel rage, passion, pain, fear and deep love... One swims in the ether of spiritual and mental anguish as one attempts to find in themselves a different aspect of Godhood. Thus, Queen Sironemaniyaa allowed the acts of a stranger leading her people to transform into a seed of hate that emboldened her.
She cried from the throne, "Is this the person responsible for kidnapping my subjects and ruining the feast - lock him in the inner Temple for all to see this impertinent old fool, and for it to be a lesson to all those that defy the Tantric will of Brahman".
The Tantric Aaiyyanist, Sage KalShivayan (head of the Temple) objected for he too saw the truth. KalShivayan and Sage Sri Janeganian tried to intervene but the Queen had made up her mind.
The Queen screamed "If this is Murugan, then he should be able to free himself?"
Murugan bowed his head and chuckled and said "It is not me who will free myself but Brahman's Instrument who will free me, the Key will unlock the door."
"Enough riddles and impertinence", screamed the Queen, "Take him away!".
And the soldiers reluctantly locked Murugan in the inner temple in the centre of KutiKampalaam. The inner Temple was a small part of the greater Temple of KutiKampalaam, which housed the first inscriptions of Murugan-Aaiyyan. The inner Temple, like all Aaiyyanist Temples could be construed as a small cage, but one of religious significance, rather than a prison. However in this instance it was used to cage Murugan and his ancient scriptures.
The Queen performed a Badaagaiyyan ritual to seal the cage in Dravidian magic so that only her Thaali (wedding necklace, mangala sutra) would open the cage. As many Aaiyyanists know during their wedding ceremony, the Badaagaiyyan ritual is a magical bond that binds two beings together. However, its origin in the ancient Dravidian times was to act as an unbreakable seal to bind or permanently lock a door. As discussed earlier the spiritual dimensions (Talas/Lokas) were much closer to our realm as they are now; plus the spiritual adepts of that era were much wiser and powerful as it was only a few thousand years since the teachings of Shiva/Aaiyyan revealed the Dravidian magical symbolic systems. Basically, the spiritual knowledge was much fresher in peoples mind that it is now. Another factor to consider is that: in the ancient times the people were much more attuned to the spiritual process than they are in our material age. Thus, Queen Sironemaniyaa could seal the inner Temple tightly and create an unbreakable bond via the ritual of Badaagaiyyan, of which a variation has now become the Aaiyyanist wedding ritual we have all grown to love.